strange behaviour of firefox
 

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Bonsoir,

I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in the
url form:

http://localhost:901

This failed because firefox try to open this url:
www.localhost.com

Why? Is something wrong with my firefox config?

And where can I change this?

Same problem if I try to open url:

http://hostname:901 (hostname= the name I gave to my computer)

FF try to open www.hostname.com (which does not exist)

If I try to open url:

http://127.0.0.1:901

There is no problem: swat is opened....

What is going wrong?

This does not happen if I want to open cups: url

http://localhost:631

is perfectly working.


Using f14 and last version of firafox for f14: 3.6.18

Thanks for enlightment.
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F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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strange behaviour of firefox
 

On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote:
> Bonsoir,
>
> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in
> the url form:
>
> http://localhost:901
>
> This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com

This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts file is missing
something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (your hostname)

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Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit :
> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote:
>> Bonsoir,
>>
>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in
>> the url form:
>>
>> http://localhost:901
>>
>> This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com
>
> This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts file is missing
> something like this:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (your hostname)

No! My /etc/hosts is (this is the file written by fedora installer):

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
localhost4.localdomain4
::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
localhost6.localdomain6

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45, rue des Saints Pères
F-75270 Paris Cedex 06
Tél. +33 (0)1 4286 2145
http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, François Patte
<francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> wrote:
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> Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit :
>> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote:
>>> Bonsoir,
>>>
>>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in
>>> the url form:
>>>
>>> http://localhost:901
>>>
>>> This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com
>>
>> This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts file is missing
>> something like this:
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (your hostname)
>
> No! My /etc/hosts is (this is the file written by fedora installer):

The fedora installer has no way of knowing what domain name you want
to pretend your box will be seen to the web by, so the one written by
the installer is going to be missing the information you need to
connect.

> 127.0.0.1 * localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
> localhost4.localdomain4
> ::1 * * * * localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
> localhost6.localdomain6

As you see. No mention of the domain name you expect your computer to
have been automatically assigned.

Simply put, the host name you told the installer has nothing to do
with the domain names visible on the web. You have to get the right to
use a name on the web, and you have to tell the rest of the web that
you want the machine to be known by that name.

Maybe you don't want to do that, or can't. In fact, you probably
don't, just yet. In that case, you can use the hosts file to tell you
machine what it should see itself as on the web, without telling the
rest of the web.

Or you can set up a DNS server on your local LAN, but I'm guessing you
don't want to go that far yet.

You might want to start with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_name>
and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file>, then maybe look at
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dns>.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name> is available in a lot of
languages if you have a language that works better for you than
English or the other major languages. Check the list of languages on
the left.

At some point, the reason the behavior you observe is not particularly
strange after all should become apparent, as will the way to get the
behavior you want.

Joel Rees
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Am 09.08.2011 00:59, schrieb Joel Rees:
> As you see. No mention of the domain name you expect your computer to have been automatically assigned. Simply
> put, the host name you told the installer has nothing to do with the domain names visible on the web. You have to
> get the right to use a name on the web, and you have to tell the rest of the web that you want the machine to be
> known by that name. Maybe you don't want to do that, or can't. In fact, you probably don't, just yet. In that
> case, you can use the hosts file to tell you machine what it should see itself as on the web, without telling the
> rest of the web. Or you can set up a DNS server on your local LAN, but I'm guessing you don't want to go that far
> yet. You might want to start with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_name> and
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file>, then maybe look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dns>.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name> is available in a lot of languages if you have a language that works
> better for you than English or the other major languages. Check the list of languages on the left. At some point,
> the reason the behavior you observe is not particularly strange after all should become apparent, as will the way
> to get the behavior you want. Joel Rees

what has this monolog to do with his problem?

typing http://127.0.0.1:901 instead http://localhost:901
is a well known workaround for idiotic autocorrections


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